Today we ’re exploring more ofJay Sifford‘s lesser - attend back garden . We ’ve toured and feature the accolade - winning landscape designer ’s immaculate stylise meadow front garden , but now we ’re wondering why the blossom bog at the back of his home plate are n’t get more attention .
In case you overlook his verbal description yesterday :
Many are familiar with myseptic drain theatre of operations turned conventionalize meadowin the front yard of my house called Rhodwood , which is located in the western North Carolina mountains at 3300 foot . We were Zone 6b ; now we ’re 7a . Fewer have seen the back garden , accessed by a series of switchback steps . This area is incorporate of a largerhododendronmaximum woods with a hightree canopy , complete with two lifelike bogs and a flow with rapids .
The natural plant pallet contains mostly spring ephemerals that are blend in by the last of June , just about the time the front garden superlative . Hundreds of native skunk cabbage(Symplocarpus foetidus , geographical zone 4–7),Trilliumsulcatum ( southern red wood lily , Zones 4–7),Veratrum , and marsh marigolds(Caltha palustris , Zones 3–7 ) organize the model . My finish was to embellish this born wonderland with native and nonnative plant that count at habitation in the space .
In bog # 1 , I sum the Struthio camelus ferns(Matteuccia struthiopteris , Zones 3–7 ) . They are happy in the muck !
Trilliumsulcatum ( southern blood-red trillium , Zones 4–7)naturally occurs here by the hundreds .
Trillium grandiflorumpink form ( Trillium grandiflorumf.roseum , zone 4–8 )
wake-robin cuneatum ( niggling sweet-flavored Betsy , Zones 5–8).I’ve planted hundred of extra wood lily to complement what was already here .
I lovepodophyllums ! This isPodophyllum‘Kaleidoscope ’ ( Zones 6–9 ) .
In accession to shoot stars(Dodecatheon meadia , Zones 4–8 ) , white kind ( shown here ) , I also plant the pink form .
I always want to growprimulas , but could n’t when I lived in Charlotte . Here are four that are blooming now .
ThisAsarumcanadensis(Canadian wild ginger , Zones 4–6)flower make it face like a Dracula orchid to me .
Glass leaves by Jesse Kelly are at base in peat bog # 2 .
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